Comment 4 for bug 12300

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:55:26 -0800, Fyodor <email address hidden> wrote:
> <snip>
> That is not discrimination against any specific person or group-- the
> GPL states (section 4 and 5) that companies must accept the GPL in
> order to redistribute GPL'd software such as Nmap. Since SCO refuses
> to accept the GPL terms, they have no right to redistribute Nmap.
> This clarification in the changelog is not meant to modify the Nmap
> license, but only to provide a concrete example of how we interpret
> the GPL. SCO has no right to redistribute Nmap unless they accept its
> license terms. Accordingly, I believe that they have ceased
> distribution of Nmap. This exact issue has been hashed over by legal
> minds much better than me in the Slashdot and Groklaw articles on the
> topic.
>
> Cheers,
> Fyodor
>

Wow...a response from Fyodor himself. Let me first thank you for all
your hard work on nmap, and your contributions to the security world.
I had brought this issue up in the #debian IRC channel, and discussion
had somewhat died so I submitted the report. Later, the discussion was
renewed, and that point was clarified. I'd withdraw the bug, but I
believe the package maintainer has to do that.

Anyway, thanks for your timely response, and thanks again for all the
work you do.
-astronut